Like last week, I want to supplement this week retirement savings coverage with something to watch. It’s a short video — just a couple of minutes — and while I can’t speak to the merits of the idea itself (I’m neither an educator nor a mathematician), it’s a great example of some of the types of things we might want to think about when we think about educating our kids and ourselves in a new world with an incredibly complex financial system.

As someone who took calculus in high school, the above mini-TED Talk got my attention right away. Take a couple of minutes to listen to Arthur Benjamin put forward a case for making statistics — not calculus — the “summit” of the mathematical educational pyramid in U.S. high schools. Could that help establish a firmer foundation for financial literacy among average Americans?

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